Amidst striking festoons, vibrant colors, multi-hued flowers, resplendent décor and ethnic vibes, festive spirit pervaded through the corridors of Sri Prakash Synergy School, Peddapuram as the grand inaugural of their two-day annual Art Expo HARIVILLU – festivals galore was held at 11: 30 a.m. on Saturday, 06 April 2024, in the august presence of distinguished guests. Shedding light on various genres of the two prominent areas of Art & Crafts and Music, the cultural carnival literally rolled out the red carpet for the guests, visitors, students, parents, and even general public to have a captivating experience of the aesthetics associated with the lavish theme of the event “National and International Festivals of Repute”.
Around 20 exciting regional-specific festive themes were on spectacular display that ranged from Ganesh puja (Mumbai) to Onam (Kerala) to Bathukamma (Telangana), nationally, and from Abu Simbel (Egypt) to Rose Festival (Bulgaria) to Lantern Festival (Taiwan), internationally. A whopping 1200 Art & Craft aspirants animated the festive spirit in thousands of monumental art works whose unique origins, history, visual, and literary connotations, inter alia, evoked artistic emotions among the audience. On the other hand, the 90-minute Music Fest with around 200 music-savvy students harmonizing beautiful melodies across 12 captivating songs held the audience spellbound. Resembling a grand symphony orchestra, students lent glamour to their melodious voices. What marked as added features were the Viewer’s Quiz and the Treasure Hunt that ignited the imaginations of the guests and the general public alike.
Smt Surabhi Vani Devi, MLC (Telangana State), founder of Sri Venkateswara Group of Institutions, and the proud daughter of former Prime Minister Bharat Ratna Sri P. V. Narasimha Rao graced the occasion as the Chief Guest. Dr. D. Ramaganesh, Consultant Pediatrician, Visakhapatnam, added great warmth to the expo as a Guest of Honor. Another Guest of Honor whose distinct presence added festive vibes was Smt Dhaassyam Geetha Bhascker, CEO, INDFAME, Trainer, Actress and the humble mother of famous film director Sri Tarun Bhascker. The Chief Guest, expressing her deep pleasure at the mammoth art expo, said that art is like a portrait which can express multiple emotions, and which doesn’t need the support any language to describe its essence. Complimenting the height of inventiveness that was abundantly exposed to the sublimity and grandeur of art & craft, she exhorted the students to sustain the creative-edge nurtured so that they could scale great heights in their lives and careers. Dr. D. Ramaganesh said he was bowled over by the impressive majesty of the art expo and further added that the Art Exhibition would undoubtedly add to the holistic development of students. Similarly, Smt Dhaassyam Geetha Bhascker lauded the school management for encouraging and inculcating such artistic values in the minds of students. She added that the contagiousness of creativity in unearthing artistry needed to be encouraged consistently.
In his inaugural address, the school director Sri Ch. Vijay Prakash clarified that they have made Harivillu programme purely a theme-based one in order to represent the diverse features of Indian/international culture(s) – folk traditions, festivals, music, dance, paintings, ethos, ethics, etc. The director further added the credit for the grand success of the art expo was wholly due to the art & craft aspirants as they endeavored to accord perfect shape and structure to all the innovations. The stirring display of art & craft has been thrown open to the general public as well on both 6 and 7 April 2024 with a view to facilitating them to witness the scale of imaginativeness and inventiveness exhibited by the students. Senior Principal Sri M.V.V.S. Murthy, Professor S. R. Santhanam, Academic & Cultural Coordinators, Teaching and non-teaching staff, students, parents, and well-wishers were present.